Waste Vegetable Oil Fuels

Well I added some more samples to my super scientific winterization experiment. I was stoked to try some new concentrations in the current samples and to get some petrol diesel cuts in to the cold. In my reading and study on the boards and biodiesel pages it seemed that everyone was all a buzz about Power Service’s Arctic Express. I don’t think it is cold enough here in Salt Lake to warrant the regular sale of AX in the local truck stops. The biggest one I know if in the city said they had some, so I headed there Saturday, but I was correct in my initial thoughts. They don’t sell it to the public they just use it to treat their “blended” diesel. What? Yes, I saw the guy taking a hand truck of cases out to treat a tank of new diesel, but they didn’t or wouldn’t sell me any, so special order it’ll have to be. They told me Monday someone will place my order.

Saturday morning I had also called around to see if I could find a chem shop that had glass pipettes, since I fried my plastic syringes measuring out the original doses. I found a guy who happened to be headed to the office and he helped me out despite the extra-hours time. If you ever need glassware and are in SLC, check out Dependable Scientific Glass & Lab Supplies,
31 W 7065 South, Midvale, UT 84047 - 3765, (801) 568-3403. I had their card, but just fished my wallet out of the washing machine, and that card seems to be one of the fatalities. They hooked my up with some new syringes for titration and pipettor with pipettes.

The new range of samples is as follows:

• B100 = 1500 ml B100
• K20 = 1200 ml B100 + 300 ml Klean-Heat Kerosene + 3.75 ml Power Service
• DT = 1500 ml B100 + 7.5 ml Power Service
• 1500 ml B100 + 9 ml Howes Lube Diesel Treat
• 750 ml B100 + 750 ml Utah winter grade #2 petrol diesel
• 1200 ml B100 + 300 ml Utah winter grade #2 petrol diesel

Today’s high according to the NOAA was 32 F. Not surprising since it was snowing on and off and a pretty mellow wind day. The picture was taken at 10:00 PM and my thermometer claims it was right around freezing. The ocular results are pretty boring. All of the samples are liquid and only a few have any sort of clouding. Maybe tomorrow morning will lead to some more interesting results.